Summary
Felipe Nader is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a decade-long career that spans fintech, SaaS, and industrial automation. He currently builds backend systems at Deel and previously helped design integrations and platform architecture as a founding backend engineer at YC-backed Mentum, focusing on bank and broker data normalization. Felipe is fluent across ecosystems—from Python, FastAPI and Django to .NET Core, Azure, Kubernetes and serverless patterns—bringing both hands-on coding and technical leadership, including mentoring and hiring. His background in control and automation engineering gives him a systems-thinking approach to reliability and data flows, which he applied to high-stakes projects like PIX instant payments and enterprise telemetry solutions. Comfortable across full-stack contexts, he also has experience launching AI-driven products and building resilient microservices and ETL pipelines for regulated financial environments.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Electronic Engineering Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica, BEng Electronic Engineering Engenharia Elétrica e Eletrônica at University of Portsmouth
Technician Mechatronics, Technician Mechatronics at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais
Master of Business Administration - MBA Agile Project and Product Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Agile Project and Product Management at PUC Minas
Engineer's degree Control and Automation Engineering, Engineer's degree Control and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English, German